Friendship is the wine of life.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in

Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.

I do not improvise in heels.

I guess if you split the difference between the U.K. and the U.S., you would get Canada. But that's just due to proximity. Just because of distance, we get a lot more cultural spillover from America.

If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

The triumph of economic globalization has inspired a wave of techno-savvy investigative activists who are as globally minded as the corporations they track.

'Go ye' is as much a part of Christ's Gospel as 'Come unto Me.'

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.